Menlo Church

God saw their pain. He heard their cries. He knew their suffering, and he came down to deliver them, active, attentive, concerned. For four hundred years, the Israelites thought that God was distant, detached, and disinterested in their pain and their problems. They had assumed maybe a decent assumption that after they had failed over and over and over again, that at some point God would give up and just move on. But God says that the entire time, he has been paying attention, that now he was ready to get even closer to them. He wasn't a divine clockmaker that had put all of this together and then walked away.